Clothes hanger



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1 H. A. B. BILTZ 2,054,371

/CLOTHES HANGER Filed Nov. 12 1955 Patented Sept. 15 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE I e nae-.1" i.

HANGER Karl Hieronymus AlfhildBlomkvist Bmz,

Ostersund, Sweden I Application November 12, 1935, Serial No. 49,416 In Sweden November 15, 1934 6 Claims.

' of the invention, the hanger being located on a door hinge.

The hinge is of usual construction and composed of two leaves or halves, each half having a sleeve-like extension 3 and 3 respectively which are turnably connected relatively to each other in a known way by means of a hinge pin. The hinge may be of any construction. The numeral I indicates an arm, one end of which is bent in the shape of an eye 2 which also may have the form of a sleeve or funnel and constitutes the upper securing part of the hanger, the said part being applied over the upper end of the hinge sleeve 3. The other end of the hanger arm I is bent in the form of a hook 4, on which, as well as on the intermediate hooks 5 which are disposed at various heights, clothes etcetera may be hung.

In the vicinity of the securing eye 2 there extends downwards from the arm I a supporting arm 6, the free end of which has a claw-or gableshaped member I, which engages and rests against the part of the hinge lying between the sleeve ends, said supporting arm 6 with appertaining member 'I having for its purpose to retain in the first line the arm I in position. The member I may also consist of a plate embodied in a suitable manner, for example flat or curved. To the lower part of the arm 6 there is secured one end of a spiral spring 8, the other end of which is mounted on the lower end of the hinge sleeve 3 by means of a part 9 formed as an eye or in any other suitable manner. Thus the hook arm I and the supporting arm 6 will resemble a console-like supporting device and they may be embodied in another way than the one shown. The arm I may for instance be shaped as a latticeor frame-work.

When the hanger with the eye 2 has been mounted on the upper end of the hinge and the supporting part I has been caused to rest against the abutment, i. e. the hinge, the said supporting part will be safely retained in its place by the spring 3 fixed to the lower end of the hinge. Due to the spring the hanger may be safely fixed on small as well as on large hinges.

The hanger may be made of wire or of phosphor-bronze, if desired.

In order to make the hook arm I steadier one may preferably provide a stay extending from the supporting arm 6, as indicated by dot and dash lines at it, the said stay being connected to the hook arm I. If the hanger is made of wire the said stay may at the junction with the arm I be wound around the said arm and extend to the point of the same as indicated at II.

By the invention one has obtained a hanger which is easy to carry and which may be easily and safely applied to the hinge of a door or to a fitting shaped in a corresponding manner and having fixing points for the grasping member of the hanger. The hanging device is particularly suitable to be used in hotels, rooms for travellers, and toilet rooms, but it may as well be used in private apartments.

No additional securing devices, such as screws, cramps or the like, are necessary to retain the device in position, and thus it can in no way cause any damage to the fitting or hinge to which it is intended to be applied.

It will be evident that certain changes can be made in the details of the construction and arrangement of my invention without departing from the field and scope of the same and I intend to include all such variations, as fall within the appended claims in this application in which a preferred form only of the invention is disclosed.

Having now described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a clothes hanger, a hook-provided arm having a grasping part in its one end, the said part being adapted to grasp one end of a hingelike fitting, a stay arm extending from the first mentioned arm in the vicinity of the said grasping member, the free end of the said stay arm being provided with an engaging part adapted to rest against the said fitting, and a draw spring device connected with the said stay arm, the said draw spring device having on its free end a grasping member adapted to grasp the other end of the said hinge-like fitting.

2. A clothes hanger as claimed in claim 1, in which the grasping parts of the said hook arm and of the said draw spring device consist of an eye-shaped member.

3. A clothes hanger as claimed in claim 1, in

which the said engaging part of the said stay arm is formed as a claw or gable.

4. A clothes hanger as claimed in claim 1, in

V which an additional supporting member extends from a point between the ends of the said hook 'arm which member is connected to said free end mentioned arm adjacent to the said grasping" member, the said stay arm being in itsfree end provided with a claw shaped projection adapted to engage the hinge, and a draw spring device connected with the said stay arm, the said draw spring device having in its free end an eye-shaped V grasping member adapted to grasp the other end of the said hinge.

6. In a clothes hanger, a hook-provided arm having in its free end an eye-shaped grasping member adapted to engage the upper end of a hinge, a stay arm extending from'the said firstmentionedarm adjacent to the said grasping" member, the said stay arm being in its free end provided with a claw-shaped projection adapted to engage the hinge, and an additional supporting member extending obliquely between the lower part of the stay arm and the hook arm. KARL HIERONYMUS ALFHILD BLOMKVIST BILTZ. 

